Questions tagged [vector]
Mathematical vectors, operations on vectors and vectorized programming.
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How can I convert a vector to a matrix?
I have an eigen vector, λ1, and I want to convert it to a matrix for use. How can i do this?
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Verifying equality $ (\vec a \times \vec b)^2 = \left| \vec a \times \vec b \right| ^2 $
I'm trying to verify the equality $ (\vec a \times \vec b)^2 = \left| \vec a \times \vec b \right| ^2 $ in Mathematica. How can I do it?
Thank you for your time.
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Plotting Vectors in Mathematica
I'm trying to plot 2D vectors in Mathematica. Built in functions don't really work for me because I want to plot vectors of matrices from the origin to the their coordinates with an arrow on their ...
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using DeleteCases to delete vectors with particular index as 0
Assume I have a set of vectors
set = {{0,1,1,0,1}, {1,0,1,1,1}, {1,1,1,1,0},{1,0,0,1,0}}.
I want to delete the vectors which have the last entry as 0. In the ...
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Animating a Vector Field
I am trying to create animations of a time dependent vector field $\vec v(t,x,y)$. The problem is that VectorPlot scales the vectors for each time $ t $ separately ...
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Orthogonal Projection of vector onto plane
I'm currently trying to learn Mathematica, and I've got some linear algebra tasks to solve with it. I've gotten quite far but now I'm stuck on this one exercise. The instructions are:
With the help ...
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Animate combined with graphic3D makes vector disappear
I am animating a point that moves along a curve. Moreover, I am also plotting three changing vectors that exit from that point and have changing length.
What happens is that sometimes I encounter ...
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Plotting Base-vectors not working properly [closed]
I'm stuck on a issue that I can't seem to solve. After defining values for V, W and x, I'm supposed to Plot two base-vectors in the base V and with the vector x in the same picture. I'm supposed to ...
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How to solve equation defined on n-dimensional vector space
I'm new to Mathematica and I'd like to solve a vector equation defined on n-dimensional vector space. I've tryed this:
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VectorPlot not showing up after switching computers
So typed the below code into my personal computer and it worked just fine. I then moved the file to my work computer so I could look at it there, and now VectorPlot comes up blank. I am not sure if ...
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Hessian matrix product in Taylor expansion of vector function
I am trying to get the 2nd order coefficient of the Taylor expansion at $\pmb{x}=\pmb{0}$ of
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What is the best way to compute the set of vectors normal to a given one?
For 2D vectors, computing the vector orthogonal to a given $v$ is straightforwardly done using Cross, as for example shown here.
However, ...
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Calculate angle between skew vectors
I want to use Mathematica to calculate the angle between two vectors (say a and b) that don't lie in the same plane. The vectors ...
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3 dimensional vector representation with Hue color data
I am trying to represent 3-dimensional vectors in a 3-dimensional space.
In my field, there is a common color coding (color wheel) as in the picture.
For (vx,vy,vz) vectors:
(0,0,1) is white,
(0,0,-...
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Representing 3D vectors, manipulating them, and identifying symmetry operations [closed]
I am sure this is relatively straightforward, but I feel like I am missing some basic knowledge to let me find the answer.
I have a list of 3D vectors not (necessarily) originating at the origin.
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Problem verifying expression with 3D vectors
I am unable to verify that my vector expressions are equivalent. I want it to say true or false.
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Explicitly construct tensor quantities with given symmetries
I am trying to use mathematica to generate explicitely a tensor. I know multiple thing about it. Let's call it $C_{\mu\nu\lambda\sigma}$. This guy has to be symmetric in the two first indices ${\mu,\...
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Summation of Kronecker deltas should give the dimension
I have a really simple problem but I don't know how to solve it. Basically, I am doing vecor manipulation and I am summing a lot of Kronecker delta here and there. How can I teach Mathematica that for ...
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How to write a matrix of $n\times 2$ where the first column is made of only 1's?
How to write a matrix of $n\times 2$ where the first column is made of only 1's?
Suppose I have a vector x={.24,...,10}.
How can I get this
$\left(
\begin{matrix}
1 & .24 \\
1 & ...
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Evaluating a formula that uses summations and products of vectors
Could someone tell me how to find beta1?
I have the following data:
I don't know how to write beta1, and I don't find ...
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Recombining vectors after taking derivatives
I want to map two expansions order by order and to solve to get unknowns coefficient. We define $X_{\mu}= \frac{(x-y)_{\mu}}{(x-y)^2}$. The quantity I need to expand in the end is $t_{\mu\nu}= \frac{...
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Drawing several 2D vectors in one plot with labeled axes [duplicate]
I want to draw vectors just with one plot. Also, I want to label the axes. Can anybody show me how can I do it?
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Change the colors of vectors?
I'm using ListVectorPlot to draw vector fields. Is it possible to change the colors and also the types of the vectors?
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Multiplying list of matrices with vector of scalars
there are many similar threads on this forum, but none of them fixes my problem. I am trying to multiply List of Pauli Matrices with a vector of symbols (which are scalars).
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Plot a level curve and its gradient
Suppose that I have the following ellipse function,
$f(x,y)=4x^2+y^2-5$.
The gradient of this ellipse is calculated as
$\nabla f(x,y)=[8x,2y]$.
I know how to plot and join them. It is easy. I do ...
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Remove Abs from Norms of Vectors
I have the following norm
Norm[{a, b*c}]
(* Sqrt[Abs[a]^2 + Abs[b c]^2] *)
How do I remove the Abs from it?
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Sum of vectors to follow a path [closed]
I'm working with a mathematica program where I have a matrix with the xyz coordinates of the begin and the end of a group of vectors (randomly), here is the image:
How can I sum two vectors where ...
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Finding the orthogonal diagonalizing similarity of a symmetric matrix
I'm aware that there are some questions similar to this here, but none that could solve my problem.
So, I have to diagonalize a symmetric symbolic matrix $m$ (to be seen below) and obtain the ...
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multiply two vectors, component by component [closed]
Would like to take two vectors and multiply components at the same index.For example {a1, a2, a3} x {b1, b2, b3} to produce {a1 b1, a2 b2, a3 b3}.
The following works, but are there some alternatives?...
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How to get vector a from known inner product?
Assuming that a.b=z,where b={b1,b2,b3} and z=x b1+y b2+z b3, obviously ...
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column space having non-linear combinations of basis vectors [closed]
I have a matrix $A_{3x3}$ whose basis for the column space are $a_{1}=(2,2,5)$, $a_{2}=(9,5,3)$ and $a_{3}=(3,6,1)$. If these are the basis for the column space, then column space can always be ...
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Abstract vector algebra with scalars
I am interested in expanding a vector expression in terms of the scalar parameter, but it doesn't give the expected result
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Why is TensorExpand so slow for vector operations?
I would like to expand the following tensor expression:
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How to simplify tensor expression with symbolic coeficients?
I can use Vectors to simplify the following expression:
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How can I reliably plot ellipse-field streamlines?
I am trying to replicate some standard structures in the study of ellipse fields in Mathematica, and I'm having much more trouble than is really reasonable, so I'd like to put this on the floor here ...
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Integrating a vector according to elements of another vector
I have two vectors, $\bar{x},\bar{v}$ and I want to produce a third vector such that:$$
u_i = \int_{x_i}^{x_i+\delta} f(v_i,t)dt \ .$$
I tried (with a simple function for example):
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wrong answer on mathematics when adding vectors
can anyone know how to solve this simple problem:
{{3}, {0}, {3}, {0}} - Fout /. Fout -> {{0}, {0}, {1}, {1}}
{{3}, {0}, {3}, {0}} - {{0}, {0}, {1}, {1}}
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Resultant of two force vectors
Vector 1 is 80 degrees counterclockwise from the X axis and 150 Newtons in magnitude
Vector 2 is 15 degrees counterclockwise from the X axis and 100 Newtons in magnitude
What is the resultant vector?
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Vector calculations in unspecified dimension
So I would like to be able to do operations on vectors, while leaving the dimension $N$ of the vector space unspecified.
As a simple example, I would like to be able to define the unit vector $e_i = ...
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Confused about the solution obtained from vector linearization
I am trying to linearize a vector expression
$$\frac{(\mathbf{u}+d\mathbf{u})\times(\mathbf{v}+d\mathbf{v})}{\vert(\mathbf{u}+d\mathbf{u})\times(\mathbf{v}+d\mathbf{v})\vert}$$
Here is my code
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How can I transform a density plot into a stream plot?
I have a table with three columns: x, y and z, where z is a function of x and y. Right now, I have a ListDensityPlot of z (below). Is it possible to plot a stream plot of this data, so that arrows go ...
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Handling arrays
Is there a way to transform a matrix in a vector, where you choose the order of the arrangement?
I used ArrayReshape but this command chooses its own arrangement, ...
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How to make vector field plot from NDSolveValue Solution?
I am solving Laplace equation on circular domain from which i get solution for potential.
The code I used:
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Simplifying results of a vector function to be nested (SECOND UPDATE)
(Oddly enough, the title for another question that ended up dealing with an unrelated problem could have worked better here, but I didn't want to plagiarize.)
Given a symbolic vector function ...
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How to query Wolfram Alpha to find projection of point on plane? [closed]
For example, the projection of the point $P=(1,2,3)$ on the plane $x+y+z=3$ is the point $Q=(0,1,2)$.
How do I ask Wolfram Alpha to compute this? I've tried "projection of point (1,2,3) on plane x+y+...
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Obtain needed Kronecker products from output of Eigensystem[]
Eigensystem[M] gives a list of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the square matrix M, i.e.
{{val1,val2,...},{vec1,vec2,...}}.
I need a routine that will ...
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Introduction to Vectors and NDSolve with System of Equations
This question is similar to an older question but with a system of equations.
I have two equations that I want to solve with NDSolve, and here's a similar minimal ...
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With equation of vector fields which are in cylindrical polar coordinates, how to plot 3-D vector field? [closed]
I have the equation of vector fields which are in cylindrical polar coordinates. How do I plot 3-D vector field? I never used Mathematica.
Edit2:
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Finding optimal rotation matrix
I have vectors E1 = {22.607, 3.495, -30.795}; and R1 = { 4.74061, 21.7549, 30.6501};. This vectors are conneted by a 3D rotation ...
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